Mad as hell much?

[PoolMan]

Flamethrowers have no stopping power. But they make for great show, I admit.

[Head Mutant]

No stopping power? Okie. Why don't you just show us and run face-on into one. See if you stop.

[StarOpal]

Well if movies have taught us nothing else, you can run for a good mile while being totally engulfed in flames... That and "Stop, drop, and roll." is for wimps.

[Spiderdancer]

I'd have to say, "The Thing" was one of the only movies I've ever seen that emphasized a)the huge inconvenient backpack needed for a flamethrower and b)that they DO tend to run out of fuel. How do I know, you ask? Sorry, that information is classified for reasons of national security.

[TheLuckyOne]

Sue, don't forget that you have to lean forward when using a flamethrower- otherwise the force of the blast knocks you on your back and makes you shoot flaming napalm directly above yourself. Which is, you know. Probably not what you're going for.

-D

[Head Mutant]

They also haven't manufactured/used them in the armed forces since 'Nam, so they're tough to get ahold of. Collector's items!

"SPACEBALLS THE FLAME THROWER!"

[pfrsue]

Without stopping to do the math (because I'd get depressed) I feel it necessary to point out that I'm most likely the only mutant who actually remembers the Vietnam War.

Besides, like I said, chainsaws have that special personal touch that you just don't get with flamethrowers. And I do love those old classic weapons. Battle axes... katanas... clubs with spikes in them.... Just like Dad used to use when Mom sent him for carry out. Ah, good times...

[DocD83]

Chainsaws are so cliched. I'll go for the gas powered hedge trimmer if a flamethrower is too hard to get ahold of.

Of course, I could always make one. How hard could it be?

[Head Mutant]

What about a deadly weed whacker? Those things *sting* if they thwip you.

[siegeshot]

You gotta remember, there's weedwhackers with several kinds of chain attachments, my dad had one with an attachment that was like the chain links from a chain, like the one that goes around bike spokes. Um, yea, bye bye everything in the yard.

[Ms. Jellybean]

You call them weed whackers? Okay, where I live, we call them weed eaters. Of course, that doesn't make much sense, since it does indeed whack the weeds and doesn't eat them.

...too much time on my hands.

And in regards to the flamethrower, you can also do dangerous things with Malotov (sp?) cocktails. Or so I've heard. Would you believe that they asked a question about those in a high-school academic derby/Quiz Bowl/whatever-you-call-it competition? It amazed the other team that we knew it. *slightly demented grin*

[siegeshot]

Yea those molotov cocktails, or firebombs, or whatever you wanna call them, doesn't really seem like they'd do much of anything, but on the tv shows they always make stuff 'splode! And I think in ww2 or something, they had some kinda nifty gernade that looked just like a molotov cocktail. Hmmmmm.

[pfrsue]

Molotov cocktails are just glass bottles filled with gasoline (or some flammable liquid) with a piece of cloth stuffed in the neck as a fuse. Throw bottle, bottle breaks, fire meets gas, whoomph. Very popular with mobs. The only grenade I can think of that would look like a bottle is the type the Germans used - nicknamed the potato masher.

I don't think I'd use either one in a movie theater though.

[Spiderdancer]

We call them weed eaters, too, Sue. I like the spheroid Civil War grenades with spikes all over them that look like the Ultimate Weapon always looks in movies.

[Ms. Jellybean]

Erm. I think I was the one that said "weed eaters."